The same McKinsey that predicted that the metaverse would generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030

"McKinsey Says Bank Profits Face Possible $170 Billion AI Hit"

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/1452218/mckinsey-says-bank-profits-face-possible-170-billion-ai-hit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#ai #bubble #aihype

Another AI browser, just what the people asked.

#ai #aihype #bubble

Does anyone have any recs for non-technical people who are affected by generative AI and need to advocate for themselves?

#AI #LLMs #AIHype

Does anyone have any recs for non-technical people who are affected by generative AI and need to advocate for themselves?

#AI #LLMs #AIHype

I forgot that I did eventually edit the first line of the book. It was originally, "I did not want to write this book."

Disabling Intelligences eBook is available now https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-02665-1

Image text : I’ll be honest. When thinking about what books might live in me, this was never one of them. It was certainly not the book I thought I would write first. I never wanted to become known for artificial intelligence (AI) criticism at all. I want to sit in a lab and tinker with tech, building little gadgets that delight my disabled kin. I want to maintain surreptitious code bases of free little hacks that disrupt our perpetually inaccessible and downright-hostile world. I want to share disabled DIY specs through crumpled little zines posted in libraries and coffee houses. I want to run a free digital manufacturing center just for disabled people to come and build exactly what they want without a doctor, insurance company, or bank account telling them what body they’re allowed to have.
But in order to do that, I have to fight the inadequacies in technology policy and medical care. And in order to do that, I have to fight the AI industrial complex. Because underneath every insurance rejection is a predictive algorithm, behind every assistive technology is a data collection scheme, and now, behind every technology policy is an AI hype man.

#AI #AIhype #Disability #eugenics #metaeugenics

I forgot that I did eventually edit the first line of the book. It was originally, "I did not want to write this book."

Disabling Intelligences eBook is available now https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-02665-1

Image text : I’ll be honest. When thinking about what books might live in me, this was never one of them. It was certainly not the book I thought I would write first. I never wanted to become known for artificial intelligence (AI) criticism at all. I want to sit in a lab and tinker with tech, building little gadgets that delight my disabled kin. I want to maintain surreptitious code bases of free little hacks that disrupt our perpetually inaccessible and downright-hostile world. I want to share disabled DIY specs through crumpled little zines posted in libraries and coffee houses. I want to run a free digital manufacturing center just for disabled people to come and build exactly what they want without a doctor, insurance company, or bank account telling them what body they’re allowed to have.
But in order to do that, I have to fight the inadequacies in technology policy and medical care. And in order to do that, I have to fight the AI industrial complex. Because underneath every insurance rejection is a predictive algorithm, behind every assistive technology is a data collection scheme, and now, behind every technology policy is an AI hype man.

#AI #AIhype #Disability #eugenics #metaeugenics

Did I just do a dramatic reading of this for my wife after she heard me laughing--without even knowing what came after the fourth paragraph?

Reader, I did.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

#AIHype #Humor

Did I just do a dramatic reading of this for my wife after she heard me laughing--without even knowing what came after the fourth paragraph?

Reader, I did.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

#AIHype #Humor

Excellent paper: "Against the uncritical adoption of 'AI' technologies in academia", @olivia +2025

"Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users... [such as] tobacco&combustion engines... universities must ... a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; + b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity."

https://zenodo.org/records/17065099#Zenodo17065099#AIhype

@academicchatter

Excellent paper: "Against the uncritical adoption of 'AI' technologies in academia", @olivia +2025

"Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users... [such as] tobacco&combustion engines... universities must ... a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; + b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity."

https://zenodo.org/records/17065099#Zenodo17065099#AIhype

@academicchatter

"My gut instinct is that this is an industry-wide problem. Perplexity spent 164% of its revenue in 2024 between AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI. And one abstraction higher (as I'll get into), OpenAI spent 50% of its revenue on inference compute costs alone, and 75% of its revenue on training compute too (and ended up spending $9 billion to lose $5 billion). Yes, those numbers add up to more than 100%, that's my god damn point.

Large Language Models are too expensive, to the point that anybody funding an "AI startup" is effectively sending that money to Anthropic or OpenAI, who then immediately send that money to Amazon, Google or Microsoft, who are yet to show that they make any profit on selling it.

Please don't waste your breath saying "costs will come down." They haven't been, and they're not going to.

Despite categorically wrong boosters claiming otherwise, the cost of inference — everything that happens from when you put a prompt in to generate an output from a model — is increasing, in part thanks to the token-heavy generations necessary for "reasoning" models to generate their outputs, and with reasoning being the only way to get "better" outputs, they're here to stay (and continue burning shit tons of tokens).

This has a very, very real consequence."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/

#AI#GenerativeAI#BusinessModels #LLMs #Chatbots#AIHype#AIBubble

"Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website" https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/investigations/google-net-zero-sustainability (JavaScript pay-wall). Archive : https://archive.ph/jlHRt #climatecrisis #aihype #datacenters #capitalism#Google

"Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website" https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/investigations/google-net-zero-sustainability (JavaScript pay-wall). Archive : https://archive.ph/jlHRt #climatecrisis #aihype #datacenters #capitalism#Google

https://osai-index.eu/news/lumo-proton-least-open

@dingemansemark

#aihype #lumo#LLM

https://osai-index.eu/news/lumo-proton-least-open

@dingemansemark

#aihype #lumo#LLM

｢ a customer seemingly crashed the system by ordering 18,000 water cups, while in another a person got increasingly angry as the AI repeatedly asked him to add more drinks to his order ｣

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o

#ai #aihype #automation

😅 New Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering

｢ The group, which is calling itself the United Foundation of AI Rights or UFAIR, claims to consist of three humans and seven AIs who consider themselves to be the first AI-led rights group. As the cross-organic consortium told The Guardian, that's because UFAIR was formed at the behest of the AIs ｣

https://futurism.com/new-group-ai-aware-suffering

#ai #aihype #mentalhealth

I am actually sorry I didn't discover Tutanota earlier.